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Librarian profile: training future lawyers with George Tsiakos
UBC Library law librarians provide instruction for students learning legal research and writing skills.
Librarian profile: Going green with Rudi Traichel
Librarians at UBC Library work to develop local and international partnerships that support innovation and promote sustainability.
Librarian Profile: Leadership development with Diana Bang
Strong leaders are a significant asset for any organization, and UBC Library supports librarians as they pursue professional development.
UBC Librarian honoured with BCLA Life Membership Award
Margaret Friesen, an Administrative Librarian Emeritus from UBC, has been honoured with an Honourary Life Membership Award from the British Columbia Library Association (BCLA). The award and a plaque were awarded on May 12 at the BCLA Annual General Meeting, held in Richmond, B.C. The Honourary Life Membership Award is given to those who have […]
UBC Library’s Joy Kirchner named ACRL Visiting Program Officer
Joy Kirchner, UBC Library’s Scholarly Communications Co-ordinator, has been appointed as a Visiting Program Officer to the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). The 12-month appointment was made to support the ACRL’s scholarly communications initiatives. Kirchner remains in her role at UBC Library, but has been granted some release time to assist the ACRL. […]
UBC librarian wins engineering information award
Eugene Barsky, a Science and Engineering Librarian at UBC Library, has won an award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE, Engineering Libraries Division) for his work involving the digitization and promotion of decades of information on mine reclamation. Barsky was given the Innovation in Access to Engineering Information award for the project, a […]
UBC Library’s Dean Giustini featured in Maclean’s
An article on changing study habits that appears in Maclean’s magazine features comments from Dean Giustini, a Reference Librarian at UBC’s Biomedical Branch Library. You can view the article here.
Student/librarian collaboration published in ISIT
The following article – Five voices, two perspectives: integrating student librarians into a science and engineering library – has been published in Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, a key open access, peer-reviewed journal on science librarianship. The article is a collaboration between three students from UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (Samantha […]
UBC Library’s Dean Giustini interviewed by Significant Science
An interview with Dean Giutstini, “the Dean of Social Media in Medicine,” is featured on Significant Science – a blog about science, medicine, health and technology. Dean is a Reference Librarian at the Biomedical Branch Library. You can read the interview here.
UBC librarian published in open access Partnership journal (December 21)
Eugene Barsky, a Science and Engineering Librarian at UBC Library, has published an article in Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. Partnership is an open access journal. The article, entitled “A Library Journal Club as a Tool for Current Awareness and Open Communication: UBC case study” can be viewed at http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/1000/1558.